Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Fulfillment tech family is one of the pillars enabling Grab to out-serve our customers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We are working on high throughput, real-time distributed systems that use sophisticated machine learning techniques to solve hundreds of millions of requests per day. We are a distributed team in 4 locations: Singapore, Beijing, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Our communication is in English, both in spoken and written form. 

Our mission is to offer the best-in-class products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency to fulfill customer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining an optimal price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and customers.

Get to know the Role

The prestigious Machine Learning Engineer position is a very challenging but incredibly rewarding role where every code that you string, every model you build, push out and implement instantly impacts millions of people across Southeast Asia. As such, we are seeking passionate & talented ML Engineers with experience in big data processing, data analytics, and machine learning to join our team where you will not only get to work on our incredibly massive production scale, you will also be exposed to elegant products running on world-class technologies that bring our unique On-Demand Transport and Delivery experience to millions of people, anytime and anywhere. If you think you have what it takes along with the desire to impact lives and transform Southeast Asia, this is your opportunity.

The Critical Tasks You will Perform:

• Design, develop, and implement automation solutions that improve the efficiency of various processes, utilizing your expertise in data analysis, machine learning, and engineering knowledge.
• Collaborate with the Data Science and Software Engineering teams to identify areas of automation and optimization within our systems, with a focus on operational efficiency and reducing manual interventions.
• Drive automation projects aimed at complex system fine-tuning with real market change, leveraging data-driven techniques to deliver business impact in the automated system.
• Work closely with stakeholders to define project goals, deliverables, and timelines, ensuring that the automation projects align with the overall business objectives.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in machine learning, optimization techniques, data analysis, and generative AI, and bring new ideas and innovations to the team.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You will Need:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, EE, or a similar field
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Proficiency in SQL, Python and at least one backend language like Go, Scala, Java, C++, or others
• Proficiency in data processing frameworks such as Spark or Flink
• Proficiency in ML and DL frameworks such as XGBoost or Pytorch
• Understanding of optimization concepts and techniques, with experience in applying optimization methods to improve system performance and efficiency.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to think analytically, self-motivated, curious, team player, and problem solver
• Detail-oriented and focused in a dynamic and fast-paced working environment

The Nice-to-Haves:

• 1+ years of experience in software engineering or data science
• 1+ years of experience in writing production code
• Master or PhD in Computer Science or similar fields
• Academic research experience and papers in Artificial Intelligence
• Experience in anomaly detection or forecasting
• Good understanding of large-scale systems and DevOps best practices such as CI/CD
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional or cross-cultural team environment

Additional Information

Life at Grab 

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.

What we stand for at Grab 

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.